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reminds me of how many users i've saved from headaches and eye strain by changing their CRT refresh rate from the default 60Hz to 75Hz in windows 98 or ME :)
by leeoniya 2y ago
reminds me of how many users i've saved from headaches and eye strain by changing their CRT refresh rate from the default 60Hz to 75Hz in windows 98 or ME :)
- bombcar 2y agoOr setting LCDs to native resolution, adjusting DPI if necessary.
- w-ll 2y agosame with turing off motion interpolation on any tv i can
- parpfish 2y agoMy parents claim that they can’t tell when it’s on. But then again, they also enabled the setting that would stretch any letterboxed content to fill the whole screen…
- kjkjadksj 2y agoOur parents grew up watching a shoebox sized screen you could hear turn on from the yard outside. They can tolerate a lot of things that would send newer generations up a wall.
- parpfish 2y agotheir generation was also told that getting a “big screen TV” was a status symbol, so picture size (not quality) is the only/primary metric
- leeoniya 2y agooh, that thing that makes every movie look like a soap opera? yes, and generally calibrating them from in-store settings of everything turned up to 11
- dspillett 2y agoThough taking care to make sure the monitor was happy at that rate, or you'd make things worse. Sometimes if was a choice of 800x600@75 OK, 1024x768@60 OK, or 1024*768@75 with a constant high-pitch whine and occasional extra flicker.